Hi Psychrome Intriguing question. Generative art, huh? I did once something similar back in the Flash days with AS2. Can't really test it anymore in today's Animate. Still image from my Random Shape Generator ©2009 Anyway I used then in AS2 some dynamic shape methods like lineStyle(), moveTo(), beginFill(), curveTo() and lineTo() with lots of Math.random() * stage.width or .height. This is of course pure theory, but it should be possible to write a kind of interface that translates all these methods of random-dynamic numerical data from Actionscript or - maybe - Javascript into SVG-XML code that would be saved in regular, adjustable intervals. Well, yes, I know that's a project one could be busy for months. On the other hand, when I opened this Generator today in the contemporary Flash Player 30, which by the way still plays it well in spite of AS2, I saw in the Context menu the commant Print ... . I haven't got a printer configured currently, though isn't it somehow possible to set up a PDF Printer which actually doesn't print but saves a print file to disk in PDF format? If you have something like Adobe Acrobat installed on your system. I wonder of course: would dynamic vector graphic inside the Flash Player translate via PDF Print into vector graphic within the resulting PDF document? Raster graphic in this context is a NO brainer. You could just make a screen capture. But you want SVG or PDF, right? Otherwise it is possible to use Apple Automator or Applescript to program a screenshot mechanism (utilizing the usual Shift-Cmd-4 or 5 routines) to capture the visual creations in regular intervals. Perhaps not entirely helpful, more meant as thoughts, ideas and suggestions ... Klaus
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